diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 8265cbf..134cac1 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 - Table Loader: Improved conditional handling of "transformation" parameter
 - Table Loader: Improved status reporting and error logging in `BulkProcessor`
 - MongoDB: Improve error reporting
+- MongoDB Full: Polars' `read_ndjson` doesn't load MongoDB JSON data well,
+  use `fsspec` and `orjson` instead
 
 ## 2024/09/19 v0.0.24
 - MongoDB Full: Refactor transformation subsystem to `commons-codec`
diff --git a/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/adapter.py b/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/adapter.py
index 9163321..8a4629d 100644
--- a/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/adapter.py
+++ b/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/adapter.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 from pathlib import Path
 
 import boltons.urlutils
-import polars as pl
+import bson
 import pymongo
 import yarl
 from attrs import define, field
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 
 from cratedb_toolkit.io.mongodb.util import batches
 from cratedb_toolkit.model import DatabaseAddress
+from cratedb_toolkit.util.io import read_json
 
 logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 
@@ -106,13 +107,13 @@ def query(self):
         if not self._path.exists():
             raise FileNotFoundError(f"Resource not found: {self._path}")
         if self.filter:
-            raise NotImplementedError("Using MongoDB filter expressions is not supported by Polars' NDJSON reader")
+            raise NotImplementedError("Using filter expressions is not supported by filesystem adapter")
+        if self.limit:
+            raise NotImplementedError("Using limit parameter is not supported by filesystem adapter")
         if self.offset:
-            raise NotImplementedError("Using offsets is not supported by Polars' NDJSON reader")
+            raise NotImplementedError("Using offset parameter is not supported by filesystem adapter")
         if self._path.suffix in [".json", ".jsonl", ".ndjson"]:
-            data = pl.read_ndjson(
-                self._path, batch_size=self.batch_size, n_rows=self.limit or None, ignore_errors=True
-            ).to_dicts()
+            data = read_json(str(self._path))
         elif ".bson" in str(self._path):
             data = IterableData(str(self._path), options={"format_in": "bson"}).iter()
         else:
@@ -137,15 +138,15 @@ def record_count(self, filter_=None) -> int:
 
     def query(self):
         if self.filter:
-            raise NotImplementedError("Using MongoDB filter expressions is not supported by Polars' NDJSON reader")
+            raise NotImplementedError("Using filter expressions is not supported by remote resource adapter")
+        if self.limit:
+            raise NotImplementedError("Using limit parameter is not supported by remote resource adapter")
         if self.offset:
-            raise NotImplementedError("Using offsets is not supported by Polars' NDJSON reader")
+            raise NotImplementedError("Using offset parameter is not supported by remote resource adapter")
         if self._url.path.endswith(".json") or self._url.path.endswith(".jsonl") or self._url.path.endswith(".ndjson"):
-            data = pl.read_ndjson(
-                str(self._url), batch_size=self.batch_size, n_rows=self.limit or None, ignore_errors=True
-            ).to_dicts()
+            data = read_json(str(self._url))
         elif self._url.path.endswith(".bson"):
-            raise NotImplementedError("HTTP+BSON loader does not support .bson files yet. SIC")
+            raise NotImplementedError("HTTP+BSON loader does not support .bson files yet.")
         else:
             raise ValueError(f"Unsupported file type: {self._url}")
         return batches(data, self.batch_size)
diff --git a/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/util.py b/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/util.py
index 0aed69a..0df03b5 100644
--- a/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/util.py
+++ b/cratedb_toolkit/io/mongodb/util.py
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import re
 import typing as t
 
+from commons_codec.transform.mongodb import Document
 from pymongo.cursor import Cursor
 
 from cratedb_toolkit.io.mongodb.model import DocumentDict, Documents
@@ -44,7 +45,9 @@ def sanitize_field_names(data: DocumentDict) -> DocumentDict:
     return d
 
 
-def batches(data: t.Union[Cursor, Documents], batch_size: int = 100) -> t.Generator[Documents, None, None]:
+def batches(
+    data: t.Union[Cursor, Documents, t.Generator[Document, None, None]], batch_size: int = 100
+) -> t.Generator[Documents, None, None]:
     """
     Generate batches of documents.
     """
diff --git a/cratedb_toolkit/util/io.py b/cratedb_toolkit/util/io.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f52fc43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cratedb_toolkit/util/io.py
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import orjsonl
+from fsspec import filesystem
+from upath import UPath
+
+
+def read_json(url: str):
+    """
+    Read JSON file from anywhere.
+    TODO: Does the resource need to be closed? How?
+    """
+    p = UPath(url)
+    fs = filesystem(p.protocol, **p.storage_options)  # equivalent to p.fs
+    fp = fs.open(p.path)
+    data = orjsonl.stream(fp)
+    return data
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index af3c1ff..1c90caa 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -94,6 +94,7 @@ dependencies = [
   "cratedb-sqlparse==0.0.6",
   'importlib-metadata; python_version < "3.8"',
   'importlib-resources; python_version < "3.9"',
+  "orjsonl<2",
   "polars<1.7",
   "pympler<1.2",
   "python-dateutil<3",
@@ -154,8 +155,10 @@ influxdb = [
 io = [
   "cr8",
   "dask[dataframe]>=2020",
+  "fsspec[s3,http]",
   "pandas<3,>=1",
   "sqlalchemy>=2",
+  "universal-pathlib<0.3",
 ]
 kinesis = [
   "aiobotocore<2.16",